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Rotten Tomatoes has a fantastic feature where they match each state in the Union with a film set in that state. Here's my own attempt (with good ole DC), with films showing up on both lists marked by an asterisk.

  • AL: To Kill a Mockingbird (Maycomb)
  • AK: Insomnia* (Nightmute)
  • AZ: Raising Arizona* (Tempe)
  • AR: Sling Blade (Benton)
  • CA: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Ridgemont)
  • CO: The Shining (Boulder)
  • CT: Beetlejuice (Winter Rivers)
  • DE: Fight Club* (Wilmington)
  • DC: The Exorcist (Georgetown)
  • FL: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Miami)
  • GA: Deliverance (Oree)
  • HI: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Honolulu)
  • ID: Napoleon Dynamite* (Preston)
  • IL: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Chicago)
  • IN: A History of Violence (Millbrook)
  • IA: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Endora)
  • KS: Superman (Smallville)
  • KY: Elizabethtown (Elizabethtown)
  • LA: All the King's Men (1949) (Mason City)
  • ME: The Shawshank Redemption (Shawshank)
  • MD: Hairspray (Baltimore)
  • MA: Good Will Hunting* (Boston)
  • MI: The Crow (Detroit)
  • MN: Juno (Dancing Elk)
  • MS: A Time to Kill (Canton)
  • MO: Meet Me in St. Louis* (St. Louis)
  • MT: A River Runs Through It* (Missoula)
  • NE: Election (Omaha)
  • NV: Smokin' Aces (Lake Tahoe)
  • NH: The Rules of Attraction (Camden College)
  • NJ: Garden State (Newark/South Orange)
  • NM: The Tao of Steve (Santa Fe)
  • NY: The Warriors (New York City)
  • NC: Blue Velvet (Lumberton)
  • ND: Fargo* (Fargo)
  • OH: American Splendor (Cleveland)
  • OK: The Outsiders (Tulsa)
  • OR: Goonies* (Astoria)
  • PA: Groundhog Day (Punxsutawney)
  • RI: Dan in Real Life (Jamestown)
  • SC: Slither (Wheelsy)
  • SD: Son in Law (Sioux Falls)
  • TN: Inherit the Wind (Hillsboro)
  • TX: Dazed and Confused (Austin)
  • UT: SLC Punk (Salt Lake City)
  • VT: Super Troopers* (Spurbury)
  • VA: Donnie Darko (Middlesex)
  • WA: 10 Things I Hate About You (Seattle)
  • WV: The Mothman Prophecies (Point Pleasant)
  • WI: BASEketball (Milwaukee)
  • WY: Brokeback Mountain* (Big Horn Mts)
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